United States Military Academy

Chronology of Coverage

May. 12, 2015

Op-Ed article by law students Ashley Anderson, Air Force Academy graduate, and Elizabeth Deutsch notes military service academies West Point, Naval Academy and Air Force Academy are exempt from oversight that guards against sex crimes at civilian schools; holds this leaves some 2,700 female cadets and midshipmen without legal recourse; urges Pres Obama to enforce same Title IX rights offered to other college females as way to challenge sexual discrimination at academies. MORE

May. 11, 2015

West Point will name new cadet barracks in honor of late Gen Benjamin O Davis Jr, who entered academy as its only black cadet in 1932; Davis overcame four years of ostracism to become Tuskegee Airman and trailblazing Air Force general; leaders say choice will allow academy to acknowledge past mistakes and honor a deserving leader. MORE

Apr. 29, 2015

Rachelle David, student at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, NY, will become first Orthodox yeshiva student, male or female, ever to attend West Point; values personal discipline, physical fitness and leadership and hopes to one day be Army general. MORE

Dec. 14, 2014

Navy defeats Army, 17-10, for the 13th straight time; other college football news noted. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Army fullback Larry Dixon, who is busy preparing with team for upcoming game against Navy, says his devastating fumble two years ago that led to Navy win has helped elevate his game to new heights; has carried 287 times for 1,743 yards and 15 touchdowns since then, and lost only one fumble. MORE

Nov. 23, 2014

Op-Ed article by author Elizabeth D Samet describes college course she designed for her Military Academy students that examines Alexander the Great's 13-year military campaign; notes Alexander's campaign offers historical parallel to the Afghanistan War, arguably the longest war in American history, and allows students to reflect on what it means to serve in military in wake of war. MORE

Nov. 9, 2014

Nov. 2, 2014

Sep. 28, 2014

College Football East Roundup; Yale upsets Army, 49-43 in overtime; other scores noted. MORE

Sep. 7, 2014

Photos of female cadets of the incoming freshman class at the United States Military Academy at West Point. MORE

Jul. 6, 2014

Gray Matter column by Profs Amy Wrzesniewski and Barry Schwartz describes their research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on motives of cadets to attend United States Military Academy at West Point; reflects on what their findings suggest about motivating students and teachers. MORE

May. 30, 2014

Pres Obama's speech at West Point, outlining shift in counterterrorism strategy, underscores how American forces have changed tactics in combating Al Qaeda and its affiliates, relying more on allied or indigenous troops with limited American combat role. MORE

May. 29, 2014

Pres Obama, in speech at West Point, says that American's main terrorist threat now comes from decentralized Al Qaeda affiliates and extremists; most groups have primarily or exclusively local objectives, like expanding their turf, overturning an autocratic state or defending a vision of Islam from supposed foreign threats, but all share admiration or affinity for Al Qaeda's brand of puritanical militancy. MORE

May. 29, 2014

Pres Obama lays out his foreign policy plan for his final two and a half years in office during commencement speech at West Point, calling on Congress to finance a fund to help besieged countries train in counterterrorism; says that United States can play vital role in world affairs without resorting to unilateral force or retreating to isolationism. MORE

May. 29, 2014

News analysis; Pres Obama uses commencement address to West Point cadets to mount sustained rebuttal of criticism and define approach to foreign policy that he believes is suited to a new era that he hopes will outlast his presidency; attempts to present himself as the steward of a reasonable balance between isolationism and unilateralism, but effort does not convince those critics who see him as defensive and partisan. MORE

May. 29, 2014

Editorial asserts that Pres Obama's commencement speech at United States Military Academy in West Point, heralded as moment when he would clarify his foreign policy vision, was uninspiring and provided little insight into how he plans to lead; holds that Obama glossed over difficulties and that his assurances about drone strike transparency and closing of Guantanamo rang hollow; says that what ultimately matters is Obama's actions over rest of his term. MORE

May. 25, 2014

Pres Obama, during commencement address at United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, plans to lay out retooled foreign-policy agenda that could deepen nation's involvement in Syria but will still steer clear of major military conflicts. MORE

Apr. 14, 2014

West Point cadets are experiencing career anxiety as end of Iraq war and winding down of war in Afghanistan make it difficult to acquire crucial combat experience; graduates, who could face awkward position of leading troops who have been battle-tested while they themselves have not, are reconsidering their career paths. MORE

Mar. 18, 2014

NCAA women's bracket is revealed and Army is seeded No 13, their first NCAA berth since 2006. MORE

Mar. 7, 2014

Sgt First Class Michael McClendon of United States Military Academ in West Point, NY, pleads guilty in case that he secretly videotaped female cadets, some as they undressed in locker room; will serve a 33-month sentence, followed by reduction in rank to private and dismissal from Army. MORE

Dec. 25, 2013

Army hires former Navy assistant Jeff Monken as its 37th football coach; other college football news noted. MORE

Dec. 19, 2013

Army, having fired football coach Rich Ellerson after 11th consecutive loss to Navy, is searching for its fifth coach in 13 years; United States Military Academy superintendent Lt Gen Robert L Caslen Jr, citing duty to service members, announces that he will consider institutional changes in order to create a winning team. MORE

Dec. 16, 2013

Army fires football coach Rich Ellerson one day after team lost to Navy for the 12th consecutive time. MORE

Dec. 15, 2013

College Football Roundup; Navy pounds Army, 34-7, for its record 12th consecutive victory in matchup; other scores noted. MORE

Dec. 14, 2013

Army coach Rich Ellerson, seeking to halt an 11-game skid against rival Navy, faces difficult choice between fielding quarterbacks Angel Santiago and A J Schurr in upcoming game. MORE

Oct. 13, 2013

Penn State men's hockey team christens its $90 million Pegula Ice Arena with a 4-1 victory over Army before an overflow crowd announced at 6,370. MORE

Oct. 2, 2013

Federal government shutdown forces Defense Department to temporarily suspend all intercollegiate athletic competitions for service academies; department puts off decision on whether to cancel impending, and lucrative, football games between Air Force and Navy and between Army and Boston College. MORE

Sep. 15, 2013

May. 23, 2013

Sgt First Class Michael McClendon, on staff of United States Military Academy at West Point, is accused of videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were undressed in bathroom or shower; allegations come in midst of growing outrage in Congress, at the Pentagon and from Pres Obama over reports of sexual harassment and assault in military. MORE

Apr. 9, 2013

Joe Nocera Op-Ed column highlights questionable enrollment practices at nation's military academies, where standards and admissions processes are abandoned in order to recruit good athletes. MORE

Mar. 30, 2013

The Yankees played Army at West Point on Saturday, a day that included a tour of the campus and its history and lunch with the cadets. MORE

Mar. 23, 2013

Students at West Point attend, and thunderously applaud, reading by Toni Morrison of excerpt from her latest novel Home, centering on a Korean War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. MORE

Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Army and Navy meet on the football field for 113th time and even with Navy dominating the last 10 meetings to make the longest win streak in the series, midshipmen refuse to discount competitive nature of the game, while noting that both teams will eventually be serving nation together. MORE

Nov. 4, 2012

Sep. 27, 2012

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column observes that Roger Staubach and Rollie Stichweh have secure reputations as perhaps the greatest matched pair of quarterback rivals in the history of the Army-Navy game; notes that Stichweh is going to be inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame, and his friends and former opponents from Navy, Staubach and Ed Orr, will be there. MORE

Sep. 6, 2012

Profile of Larry Dixon, who, as a first-year player on the Army football team in 2011, quickly learned that being a college running back was easy compared with being a plebe at West Point. MORE

May. 28, 2012

United States Military Academy faculty are debating whether the counterinsurgency strategy used in Iraq and Afghanistan, the troop-heavy, time-intensive, expensive doctrine of trying to win over the locals by building roads, schools and government, is dead; broadly, the question is what the United States gained after a decade in two wars; debate mirrors one under way in the armed forces as a whole as the United States withdraws without clear victory from Afghanistan and as the results in Iraq remain ambiguous at best. MORE

Mar. 21, 2012

Army linebacker Andrew Rodriguez is awarded James E Sullivan Award as nation's top amateur athlete. MORE

Jan. 31, 2012

Plans for a talk at West Point by Lt Gen William G Boykin, a retired general known for his harshly anti-Muslim remarks, are abruptly canceled after a growing list of liberal veterans’ groups, civil liberties advocates and Muslim organizations call on the United States Military Academy to rescind the invitation. MORE

Dec. 15, 2011

Showtime documentary A Game of Honor explores how football players at the United States Military and Naval Academies balance sports with their military commitments. MORE

Dec. 11, 2011

Navy defeats Army, 27-21, in their perennial college football matchup. MORE

Dec. 10, 2011

Army is hoping to snap its nine-game losing streak against Navy when teams meet in their annual college football showdown. MORE

Nov. 13, 2011

Oct. 23, 2011

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column remembers West Point alumnus Bill Zadel, who died at age 68; holds that Zadel took an epic American path, from college football all-star to Marine in Vietnam to corporate executive and family man--the ideal of scholar-athlete-citizen that football, in particular, likes to display. MORE

Sep. 10, 2011

Football is taken seriously at United States Military Academy, but military service always comes first at West Point; Army players balance football, challenges of a high-level education and rigors of military training. MORE

May. 1, 2011

Former Army running back Collin Mooney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but he is also training himself in the hope that he can make his way to the NFL. MORE

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In the past few years, the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Culinary Institute of America have grown closer and, in doing so, have reclaimed their common history, write former and current leaders of the partnership.